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Kathleen asked this question about The Hobbit, or There and Back Again:
Who else here was disappointed in the hobbit movies? I thought there was too much CGI and it strayed to much from the book. Reply if you think so too! :)
Barry Haworth One sign of a good adaptation is when the film maker can show you something in a book which you had never noticed but was there all along. To his cred…moreOne sign of a good adaptation is when the film maker can show you something in a book which you had never noticed but was there all along. To his credit, Jackson managed that with the first Hobbit movie, when he had Bilbo, who in the books is always pining for the home he has left behind and wondering when he will get back to it, realises that the dwarfs feel exactly the same about there lost home in the Lonely Mountain.

On the strength of that I will forgive him the first movie, extra characters, ridiculous chase scenes, falling trees that stop in mid air and all. The other two movies, though, have no excuse. An elf falls in love with a dwarf? The light of the moon rather than the light of the suet opens the door? The dwarfs make a huge statue out of pure gold? Giant worms? What on Middle Earth is happening here?(less)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
by J.R.R. Tolkien
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